Author: ISM Media Group

  • South Bethlehem village marked out for the Wall

    by ISM Hebron, February 21st Human rights workers (HRWs) in Hebron received a request for international presence in Umm Salamuna village south of Bethlehem as the IOF had invaded the village. They arrived in Umm Salamuna village around 9:30 am and joined internationals from other groups. At a Palestinian vineyard about 8 Israeli soldiers, 2…

  • M’riha – A Saga of Expulsion and Dispossession

    by Stop the Wall, February 16th M’riha, a Bedouin community west of Jenin, came under attack on Thursday 15th February by Occupation Forces who destroyed four sheep farms under the pretext of the community lacking necessary “building permits”. Occupation Soldiers, flanked by several bulldozers, entered the village at 9.30 am. The area was closed off…

  • Haaretz: “Peace Now: 2,000 settlers live in West Bank outposts”

    NOTE: all Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate the fourth Geneva Convention and have been condemned by four UN Security Council resolutions. The outposts are illegal even according to Israeli law. The 190,000 settlers in East Jerusalem bring the total number of West Bank settlers to over 450,000. by Nadav Shragai, February 21st The…

  • YNet: “Press relieves Palestinian Family in Hebron”

    by Roee Nahmias, February 20th The Abu Aisha family in Hebron has not experienced any confrontations since the press revealed their story several weeks ago. “Since the publicity in the press, the situation has improved. We no longer have fights and we have more mobility,” said Taiseer Abu Aisha, the head of the Palestinian family…

  • Don’t say we did not know

    by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Don’t say we did not know 37 In the early 1980s the inhabitants of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills were evicted. Tuba used to be where the settlement Maon Farm is today. The people of Tuba settled nearby, about 1.5 km away. They were expelled again in…